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Using data from about 100 sites worldwide, an international research team has demonstrated that forest cover acts as a global thermal insulator by cooling the understory when the air temperature is high. This buffer effect is well known, but this study is the first that has evaluated this worldwide in temperate, boreal and tropical forests.

Maximum temperatures are on average 4 degrees C lower in forests than outside them, with much higher differences for tropical forests than others. The researchers have also shown that the hotter the external conditions, the greater a forest's buffering capacity.

On the basis of this observation, management strategies can be proposed to improve forest microclimates and limit the harmful effects of global warming on biodiversity.

This study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on 1 April 2019 was an initiative by Pieter De Frenne at the Universit茅 of Ghent and Jonathan Lenoir, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire 脡cologie et Dynamique des Syst猫mes Anthropis茅s (CNRS/Universit茅 de Picardie Jules Verne).